Geography Quote by Lennart Meri Download Open image “If geography is prose, maps are iconography,” — Lennart Meri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geography Iconography Maps Prose Writing
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety.… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect, — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography. — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
The border is varied depending on the geography, depending on the specific venue, and depending on the conduct of individuals around it. We don't… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador.… — Jennifer Esposito Copy Share Image
A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Because everybody is so ADD and everybody is trying to move the plot so fast, there's very little sense of geography in movies anymore.… — Ti West Copy Share Image
The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
